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9 Feb, 11 tweets, 7 min read

@ShashiTharoor

#SupremeCourt to hear plea by @ShashiTharoor & various journalists including @sardesairajdeep, @vinodjose @MrinalPande1 who seek to quash the FIRs registered against them for allegedly "misreporting" and "spreading disharmony" over tweets & reports on the ongoing #farmersprotests

The others who have moved the #SupremeCourt for relief are journalists, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath and Anand Nath. The petitioners have reportedly termed the FIRs as frivolous while urging that they ought to be cancelled.

Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta: I want to be heard. List it tomorrow

CJI: we are only issuing notice. This is similar to another matter

Senior Adv Kapil Sibal: Please grant us protection from coercive steps.

@KapilSibal

@KapilSibal : Please protect me till the period of notice. Investigating agency is now in Delhi. They can arrest me. Section 124 has been added now

CJI to Solicitor-General: Are you going to arrest them?

Mehta: I am before your lordship. Please hear it tomorrow

CJI: we will hear it after two weeks we will stay arrest in the meanwhile

CJI to SG: you are not appearing for everybody, you are appearing for only one state

Mehta: I will appear for all.

Sibal: What prejudice will it cause if this protection is given?

Senior Adv Mukul Rohatgi: I appear for editor of Caravan Magazine. There is no religious sentiment which has been hurt. It was a January 26 report on some person being shot and then we corrected it to something else

SG Mehta: I can show you what horrendous effect these tweets have with such lakhs of followers

@sardesairajdeep

Supreme Court issues notice in all petitions and stays arrest for all for the next two weeks

#SupremeCourt
@sardesairajdeep
@vinodjose @MrinalPande1

@sardesairajdeep

Supreme Court STAYS the arrest of Rajdeep Sardesai
Vinod Jose
Mrinal Pande

#SupremeCourt @sardesairajdeep @MrinalPande1 @vinodjose #FarmersProtest

@DebayonRoy

[BREAKING] Supreme Court stays arrests of Shashi Tharoor, Rajdeep Sardesai & ors for reports, tweets on Farmers Protests

reports @DebayonRoy

#FarmersProtest #SupremeCourt

@ShashiTharoor @sardesairajdeep
@MrinalPande1 @vinodjose

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